Hinzweiler

Hinzweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Eßweiler Tal northwest of the Königsberg in the North Palatine Uplands at an elevation of some 200 m above sea level. Elevations on the right bank at the Königsberg reach above 500 m above sea level . On the left bank, they reach only a bit more than 300 m above sea level . The municipal area measures 532 ha, of which roughly 32 ha is settled and 200 ha is wooded.Neighbouring municipalitiesHinzweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Nerzweiler, in the east on the municipality of Aschbach, in the south on the municipality of Oberweiler im Tal, in the west on the municipality of Horschbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Glanbrücken.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Hinzweiler is the outlying homestead of Mühlbergerhof.